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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

J. 1. VAN KIRK, OF FRANKFORT, PENNSYLVANIA, AND WM. M. FULTON, OF ORANBERRY,

NEWV JERSEY.

LAMP.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 26,310, dated November 29, 1859; Reissued January 5, 1864, No. 1,601.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J. T. VAN KIEK, of F rankfort, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, and WM. M. FULTON, of Cranberry, in the county of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Irnproved Lamp-Burner for Burning Coal-Oi1; and we do hereby declare that the foilowing is a full, clear, and exact deseription thereof, reference being had to the 'accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, mak ing a part of this specification, in which F igure lis an externa1 view of our invention with the g1ass chimney applied to it. Fig. 2 is also an external view with the cap ofi, so as to expose the wiek-tube and perforated plate, or gauze-wire. Fig. 3 is the so1id whee1. Fig. 4: is the wiek tube with the spring and sold wheel attached.

Our invention consists in a peculiar clevice deseribed hereafter, whereby the wiek may be readily raised and lowerecl and retained in its proper position after adjustment.

T0 enab1e those skilled in the art to u11y understand and construct our inventon we will proceed to deseribe it.

A represents the top of a lamp which is fitted on a fountain or reservoir of the usua1 or any proper form. This top is constructeol of sheet metal.

B is the wiek tube, which is of oblong form and drawn out of a so1id piece of brass, to receive what is generally known as the flat or square wick,this wiek tube instead. of passing through a solid meta1 plate as usual, passes through a perforated plate or ganzewire C, as plainly shown in Fig. 2.

D are the. wheels for raising and lowering the wiek secured to the spindle E, the 1atter resting on a spring on one side, the spring being attached to the bottom of the tube,

and on the other side resting against the tube, the tube being grooved so as to ad1nit it, as shown in Fig. 4, the spring acting on the bearing of the whee1, so that in case the lamp is used on board of the cars or stages the wiek remains stationary and does not fal1 in the tube.

F is the cap, being arranged so that t sits on the brass ring which hems in the gauze wire C,through the 1ower part of this eap openings Gr are made, said openings extending all around the cap, and an oblong slot H is made through the top of the cap, on both sides of this slot openings I are made, said openings being varied according to the size of the burner, which 1et on a greater supply of oxygen than wou1d naturally pass through the slot, to combine with the carbon of the 0i1 when in combustion. The bot-tom J communicates with the externa1 air as shown at K, the air passing through the perforations K, ai1d through the perorat-ed plat-e or air distributer C, and so on through the openings Gin the lower part f the cap F, and openings I in the upper part of the cap F, the remainder passing through the slot H. The perforated piate or gauze wire serves to distribute the air even1y in the top of the cone, the holes in the top of the cone presenting the air evenly to the flame.

We claim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent The spindle B, with its eog whee1s D, the said spindle being confined to its p1aee by, and acted upon by, a spring attached to the wiek tube and arranged in respect to the latter, as and for the purpose herein set forth.

J. T. VAN KIEK. WVM. M. FULTON. VVitnesses:

GEORGE H. LOUSHER, ISRAEL S. ELLIOTT. 

